To explore R books. How we use them, value them, and discuss them.
Blogs
So many great books lists for computation and R. Here is a brief list scraped from blog posts captured by R-bloggers.
library(tidyverse)
blogs <- read_csv("data/blogs.csv")
knitr::kable(blogs[1:10, ])
| title | authors |
|---|---|
| R for Data Science | Hadley Wickham |
| Advanced R | Hadley Wickham |
| Cookbook for R | Winston Chang |
| The art of R programming | Norman Matloff |
| Hands-On Programming with R | Garrett Grolemund |
| Machine learning with R | Brett Lantz |
| R for Excel Users | John Taveras |
| R Packages | Hadley Wickham |
| ggplot 2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis | Hadley Wickham |
| R Cookbook | Paul Teetor |
Citations
The Web of Science also shockingly now indexes citations to books.
library(tidyverse)
citations <- read_csv("data/citations.csv")
knitr::kable(citations[1:10, ])
| title | authors | year | citations | citations.per.yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numerical Ecology with R | Borcard, Daniel; Gillet, Francois; Legendre, Pierre | 2011 | 2535 | 281.67 |
| Optical Wireless Communications: System and Channel Modelling with MATLAB(R) | Ghassemlooy, Z; Popoola, W; Rajbhandari, S | 2013 | 559 | 79.86 |
| Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples, Third Edition | Shumway, Robert H.; Stoffer, David S. | 2011 | 349 | 38.78 |
| Applied Numerical Methods using MATLAB (R) | Yang, WY; Cao, W; Chung, TS; Morris, J | 2005 | 231 | 15.40 |
| Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: With Applications in R | Rizopoulos, D | 2012 | 186 | 23.25 |
| Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy: With R Applications | Feigelson, ED; Babu, GJ | 2012 | 181 | 22.63 |
| Chemometrics with R: Multivariate Data Analysis in the Natural Sciences and Life Sciences | Wehrens, Ron | 2011 | 141 | 15.67 |
| Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavationg Data for Knowledge Discovery | Williams, Graham | 2011 | 133 | 14.78 |
| Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R | Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars | 2011 | 131 | 14.56 |
| Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R | Swenson, NG | 2014 | 110 | 18.33 |
R Meetup
A brief survey of local R users.
library(tidyverse)
#meetup <- read_csv("data/meetup.csv")
#knitr::kable(meetup[1:10, ])